Coffee Companion -- 7/18: U.S. women lose in a heart-breaker

Each morning, Monday through Friday, I'll hook you up with reading material to skim through as you slug down coffee and slack off at the start of your workday -- that way I'll have an excuse to do the same at the start of mine.

I wanted to post a highlight of Alex Morgan's goal in Sunday's World Cup Final, but since the United States couldn't hold the lead, here is former NHL star Joe Sakic hitting a hole-in-one

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UPDATE: Check out a photo gallery of images from Joe Flacco's wedding here. The photos can also be found on the website of photographer Jason Prezant, but the site has been inaccessible due to the high interest in the Flacco pictures.

Watching their season go up in flames, the last-place Orioles have stopped, dropped and are now rolling into the All-Star Break. They are 13 games below .500 and 15 behind the Yankees in the AL East. The blue skies we saw over Camden Yards at the home opener have been replaced by smoke...

The period before free agency brings a lot more focus to the untenable contracts and salary cap numbers on NFL rosters. But there's also a flip side. This week's Five for Friday highlights some of the Ravens' best contracts heading into 2015.

More than 70,000 fans at M&T Bank Stadium trying to access information on their fantasy football teams and updates from games around the NFL on Sundays put a drain on wireless data networks and smartphone batteries, and the Ravens are addressing that with a new Wi-Fi network at the downtown...